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Ukraine’s military intelligence reported finding Western-made components inside Russian decoy drones, used in recent swarm attacks to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses.

Dubbed “Parody,” these decoys are cheaper than Iran’s Shahed-136 drones but can mimic their radar signatures, creating fake targets to distract defenses.

Russia reportedly launched over 2,000 drones last month, half of which were decoys, with some crashing in Moldova, raising regional security concerns.

Despite sanctions, Western technology continues to appear in Russian weapons, complicating efforts to restrict Moscow’s drone capabilities.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean ... of course they did. I'm sure there are plenty of wartime purposes for general use and consumer electronics parts.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (6 children)

True, as seen by Russian fighter pilots literally taping consumer GPS units to the cockpit, but Russia is under sanctions and should not be receiving any silicon for general or consumer use either

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (5 children)

When are we going to see the revision of parody fighting? It is stupid to fight RC planes with super expensive rockets. There should be distributed assets of interceptor drones of an equivalent class to fight fire with fire instead of throwing gold bricks at pigeons

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 164 points 3 days ago (12 children)

The Ukrainian government has a vast list of all the electronics they are finding in Russian weapons and where they came from. It's actually pretty impressive.

https://war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/components

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